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A Walk Down Main Street,
Buffalo, New York, 1910 By
Joseph Bieron and Paul J. McCarthy Edited
by Jennifer
Fecio McDougall In
1900, Buffalo was the eighth largest city in the U.S. As the world ushered in
the new century, Buffalo celebrated its status as a vibrant center for transportation,
commerce, and industry and became home for thousands of immigrants who chose to
begin their new lives in this promising City by the Lake. Postcards
erupted on the scene around 1907, a short-lived product of the collision of emerging
print technologies and existing postal regulations.
This lovely book offers a fascinating and historically accurate glimpse of Buffalo's
Main Street at the turn of the last century through postcard scenes. These views
of downtown reveal Buffalo as one of the most progressive and vibrant cities of
the time. How
fitting that postcards, made popular during Buffalo's heyday, should pave the
way through the city's illustrious past. Perhaps they also provide valuable clues
for directions in which Buffalo's beautiful downtown could and should develop
a century hence, rising from the ashes to emerge once again as a vital, vibrant
hub for the entire region.
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A Walk Down Main Street,
Buffalo, New
York, circa
1910 By
Joseph Bieron and Paul McCarthy Buffalo
Heritage Unlimited, 2008 68
pages
ISBN 978-0-9788476-4-7 Price:
$17.95
Postcard Views: 10-card
package of reprinted postcards Price:
$4.95 Postcard
Views: Book
and Postcard Set Price:
$19.95
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